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Everything posted by konchog uma
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the useless tree is not cut down by the carpenter and achieves longevity. don't strive to be useful to others, realize your true nature and act in accord. the universe loves you whether you serve a purpose to the masses or not. realizing that everyone suffers is the seed of true compassion and great altruism. for as long as there is enjoyment, there may be suffering too. from an evolutionary perspective, the purpose of suffering is quicker rate of change. if everything were blissful, why would we evolve or seek deeper levels of realization? be thankful for suffering as sacred. in my own life i am thankful for my horrible sufferings because they have strengthened my resolve and practice, and my faith and love. if i lived a charmed life i would take things for granted like so many silver spoon gagging fools. fortunately for me, the reality blessed me with obstacles and sufferings so that i would learn of my own compassion and depth of character. take heart non. the way of nature is unconditional giving, and this is only a 3d shadow of the higher dimensional unconditional love of the spirit. don't forget that you are loved, and persevere until you have learned the lesson that is the real reason for the suffering. bless your spirit! life isn't easy for anyone, in spite of the airs they might put on or the possessions they might flash
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i believe in immortals, and extreme longevity. i don't have very much to add right now, except to say that. i transmute excess jing upward to the reservoir of vital energy (dantien at the navel). i infuse this charged chi with shen from the heart chakra, and shen from the whole luminous field. i mix the 3 essences and infuse my dantien with cosmic energy through my belly button using "cosmic umbilical cord" practice, drawing in the light of universal love and cosmic spirit. i circulate this energy through the small orbit and let it infuse all my organs. does anyone have any commentary on this practice? i am always looking to evolve my practices. i hope that i am blessed with long life. lonnnnng life .
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i had an acme for years and now i have a tiny little thing i found at goodwill the acme finally bit the dust. i haven't used a lot of different kinds of juicers, but i've drank a lot of different kinds of juice! hahaha i keep it simple, carrot apple ginger lemon garlic celery is what ive been doing for a while lately
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well i take that as one person's opinion. thanks.
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did you know that the federal reserve isn't part of the federal body? it's an offshore institution that taxes the u.s. goverment on each dollar. money is essentially a debter's instrument. all the same, i didn't mean to knock the people who learn from zeitgeist. i love the venus project. i think jacques fresco is a genius. i just think that the zeitgeist series is oversimplified, and has an attitude in its presentation that i don't like. so that probably came across in my comment to you. its just personal preference, im not trying to convince you that i'm right. and i forget which zeitgeist i have seen and which i haven't. i think there are 3 and ive seen 2, and im not sure which one addendum is
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sweet of you, i really appreciate that. i have never studied in a group setting (well 15 years ago i learned shaolin kungfu and taiji and there were other people there). but not qigong. i have studied with meditation masters of two traditions (daoist and mikkyo) and that makes 3 masters who i studied meditation under. so i know the benefit of having that feedback loop, i just haven't looked into it or found a master that i feel compelled to study under yet. also, i am really poor, but thats beside the point, i should still look into it. thank you for your encouragement!
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people get depressed for a variety of reasons. rich people get depressed and some attempt suicide. the cult of zeitgeist blames everything on money, which shifts personal responsibility away from the self. beware of oversimplified answers.
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i raise my carrot juice to you sir
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yes sitting on a cushion, i do just the same thing you described up there, leaning forward then straightening. very helpful. i didn't learn the locks through yoga practice, i learned them from a shaolin sifu. he was not a taoist master. i just never really got the point of it (anal lock) which isn't his fault. i think its just my (un)natural western forcefulness that caused me to miss the mark. thanks for your advice, i appreciate it.
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brilliant
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it destabilizes my posture and causes rigidity. i was thinking it might be deep seated fears that cause root chakra issues. i had a pretty hellified childhood. but maybe i'm just using too much force. is it something that is done gently, like just a little bit? the other two locks stabilize my posture and increase the flow of energy through my whole body, but the anal lock seems to do the opposite unless i do it oh-so-lightly. then it distracts my mind because it demands my attention and intention. any advice?
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thanks! i just bought 2 books this morning so im going to hold off on those for now. i am re-reading mantak chia's five elements fusion qigong. i have learned to take small steps in the proper order so i'm going to build from where i am instead of jumping in headfirst. i will search TTB for nei gong threads and read those to build familiarity while i read and practice master chia's qigong. again, thanks!
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i have always been drawn to nei kung, and bone marrow nei kung in particular. i don't practice, but when i hear about it, my attention focuses and i think "thats what i need" what are good introductory books/vids for learning about nei kung? do i need a solid foundation in qigong to practice effectively?
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Would people Like a Buddha Bum sub forum?
konchog uma replied to Seth Ananda's topic in General Discussion
thats a really good point (that first one). buddhists already have enough places to type the wild dharma on the internet. i just deleted my vote for yes. it would also attract the very kind of buddhists that drive you guys nuts, who search for "dharma" and see that there is a group of daoists calling themselves tao bums and then they will want to rage the wild dharma all over us here. i can see it now. -
Would people Like a Buddha Bum sub forum?
konchog uma replied to Seth Ananda's topic in General Discussion
ive seen a lot of buddhist talk from both sides of the fence here, so i think it would probably be worth trying. and it would give all you hardcore daoists an added layer of protection from the big B-word! like a dental dam for your spirit -
Would people Like a Buddha Bum sub forum?
konchog uma replied to Seth Ananda's topic in General Discussion
there could be a subsection for vapid buddhist rants and proselytizing and such -
Would people Like a Buddha Bum sub forum?
konchog uma replied to Seth Ananda's topic in General Discussion
yeah there are so many similarities that the differences become sorta negligible from a certain point of view. dzogchen is totally daoist in nature, and both tibetan buddhism and daoism have their deep roots in shamanism can you link to qero info that you think would be good for beginners? i know i could google it but i would rather go with what you recommend than sift through search engine results knowing absolutely nothing about it. thanks! -
yeah thats difficult indeed. but the way of the planet is to grow food and shelter for us no matter what it thinks of our personal character, and the way of the spirit is to be omnipresent, not there for some but not for others. unconditional virtue is something i am working on right now and it is SO hard at first
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daoism isn't full of rules, so much as it is full of encouragement to engage the discriminating mind and see what is best to do in each situation as it arises. if you have conflicting ideas (i should, i shouldn't...) then as stigweard said, follow the path with heart. that is the best all around advice for living a life that is true to yourself, and comes from many different and unrelated traditions. it isn't always the "path of least resistance" which is often cited as a daoist ideal by lazy people, sometimes it is the harder path or the high road. a dao cultivator might meditate on it, and more deeply observe why they both wanted something and didn't want it. in your case you might want the romantic companionship of the woman in question, but you might also not want to get hurt again. i recommend just sitting with these ideas quietly and opening your spirit to the great spirit, letting its guidance in. pleasure and pain seem to be a yin-yang pair and its hard to let someone into your life without putting them in a position to really hurt you. the balance is a good reminder not to hold on too tight, and not to let go too easily, but find a gentle middle ground. good luck to you!
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thats great, thanks! i just searched for da liu on www.paperbackswap.com and found this book http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Health-Longevity-America-Exercises/dp/1557784361/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314095188&sr=1-1 so i had it sent to me. thanks for the recommendation! i also found this as a similarly searched book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/087728542X?SubscriptionId=0QCHRJVSKG6F3BRGBNG2&tag=pbs_00006-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=087728542X and ordered a used copy on amazon. thanks, usually when i search for books on "tao" all i find is a million copies of the tao de ching, some deng-ming dao, the tao of pooh, etc. those books up there are the books i have been looking for!
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Living Life is a totally misconstrued taoist concept
konchog uma replied to tulku's topic in General Discussion
i really don't care to discuss it further. bless your endeavors. -
Living Life is a totally misconstrued taoist concept
konchog uma replied to tulku's topic in General Discussion
those two things aren't mutually exclusive. we're all higher dimensional beings whether we realize it or not, and i hate to break it to you, but some higher dimensional beings have fun. i hope your heart and mind soften. bless your path tulku, may you find the peace you seek. -
Living Life is a totally misconstrued taoist concept
konchog uma replied to tulku's topic in General Discussion
well you are presuming that the goal of practice is to experience the void. you can't even define that because its paradoxically impossible. secondly, there are whole schools that disagree with you based on the premise that if one can realize the emptiness of sex and other sensory pleasures while engaged in them, they can realize the emptiness of anything. in other words, your philosophy works only as long as one is sequestered away and doesn't have to deal with life on life's terms, while an accepting philosophy works everywhere. if you have ever heard of kalachakra tantra, the highest yoga tantra involves using the practice of lovemaking to contemplate and realize emptiness. when you talk about experiencing the void, i assume you are talking about realizing emptiness, since the negation or dissolution of consciousness itself has never been the highest goal of anyone except maybe people who seek death. anyway, your attitude is too rigid for me to take you seriously. in other words, if your path bore the highest fruit, why are you so rigid? one who has realized the void would see the total lack of importance in such matters as these, and would have an all-inclusive understanding, not an understanding that divides into dualistic opposites. you claim to espouse the highest path but your example is one of dichotomy and duality, something we dirty worldly people are trying to transcend in spite of our sexual practices and our love of food. if everyone thought like you the human race would be extinct in a single generation. THEN who would realize the highest truth of void consciousness?? oh wait, everyone. nevermind. -
Living Life is a totally misconstrued taoist concept
konchog uma replied to tulku's topic in General Discussion
thats an awesome point. im glad something good came out of this thread. "in order to reject something, accept it. and in order to accept it, reject it." -lao -
Living Life is a totally misconstrued taoist concept
konchog uma replied to tulku's topic in General Discussion
renunciation isn't for everyone. daoism evolved to offer guidance to people of worldly paths (graceful acceptance) and monastic paths (graceful rejection). if a person chooses to live in the world, or has to, but they reject the world, they can go crazy and cultivate negativity and lack of peace. so this is not good. also there is more than one single goal. no ism is That simple so i think its important to respect all aspects of spiritual cultivation. not everyone is motivated to experience the void, even if you strongly feel that this is the goal of your own personal practice. people are born with different natures, proclivities, and predilections. what seems right for you isn't right for everyone. and i loathe to make this a personal matter, but i will bring up an example from my own practice. i am not a monastic renunciate but i have had my experiences with void consciousness and with dissolution into oneness. so therefore, one does not need to have no sex or fun or sensory input in order to achieve these goals. daoism has never advocated cultivating rigid attitudes, so maybe if you expanded your acceptance to include the paths that were appropriate for others, you would find more peace. dzogchen is just the awareness that we are already one with the all, that we don't have to do anything else or realize anything else, and it is expressed by just being spontaneously ourselves. so its not the same at all. its sort of the opposite of what you are saying, which is deny healthy human impulses and try to realize the void. part of realizing emptiness is that it makes room for the fullness of life, which is beautiful when it is balanced by emptiness realization. but balance is the key, not getting lost in emptiness. this is a common mistake. all three of those paths have evolved to encompass the needs of the many. hinduism, for example, ranges from the void-driven nihilistic renunciation you are going on about to tantric shaivism, which says that you should accept everything on principle, and have as much sex (and meat, and wine, depending on your school of shaivism) as you want as long as you are doing it in a way that enables progress on your spiritual path. my point is, there are more ways than the way you think is right. and since you seem so fired up about your way, why aren't you dressed in rags on a mountain path, begging for rice and contemplating the void? why are you using the internet? isnt that a part of the polluted world that you seem to detest? your example speaks louder than your words, so you seem to contradict yourself. @ everyone else: i can see why you guys get sick of the buddhists here